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Progressive totalitarians
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/31/why-a...illiberal/
Nice listing of the excesses of the progressives.
And notable quote:
"...Many progressives professed early admiration for the supposed efficiency of Benito Mussolini’s public works programs spurred on by his Depression-era fascism, and his enlistment of a self-described expert class to implement by fiat what was necessary for “progress.”
Even contemporary progressives have voiced admiration for the communist Chinese ability to override “obstructionists” to create mass transit, high-density urban living, and solar power. Early on in the pandemic Bill Gates defended China’s conduct surrounding the COVID-19 disaster. Suggesting the virus did not originate in a “wet” market was “conspiratorial”; travel bans were “racist” and “xenophobic.” In contrast, had SARS-CoV-2 possibly escaped by accident from a Russian lab, in our hysterias we might have been on the brink of war.
So it is understandable that progressivism can end up as an enemy of the First Amendment and intellectual diversity to bulldoze impediments to needed progress. To save us, sometimes leftists must become advocates of monopolies and cartels, of censorship, or of the militarization of our capital...."
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
Also from the article:
"...Progressivism patronizes the poor and champions them at a distance, but despises the middle class, the traditionally hated bourgeoise without the romance of the distant impoverished or the taste and culture of the rich. The venom explains the wide array of epithets that Obama, Clinton, and Biden have so casually employed—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, ugly folk, chumps, and so on. “Occupy Wall Street” was prepped by the media as a romance. The Tea Party was derided as Klan-like. The rioters who stormed the Capitol were rightly dubbed lawbreakers; those who besieged and torched a Minneapolis federal courthouse were romanticized or contextualized.
Abstract humanitarian progressives assume that their superior intelligence and training properly should exempt them from the bothersome ramifications of their own ideologies...."
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
Even Trump said that his rioters look "low class".
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 03:51 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
Filth
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 03:44 PM)bullet Wrote: Also from the article:
"...Progressivism patronizes the poor and champions them at a distance, but despises the middle class, the traditionally hated bourgeoise without the romance of the distant impoverished or the taste and culture of the rich. The venom explains the wide array of epithets that Obama, Clinton, and Biden have so casually employed—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, ugly folk, chumps, and so on. “Occupy Wall Street” was prepped by the media as a romance. The Tea Party was derided as Klan-like. The rioters who stormed the Capitol were rightly dubbed lawbreakers; those who besieged and torched a Minneapolis federal courthouse were romanticized or contextualized.
Abstract humanitarian progressives assume that their superior intelligence and training properly should exempt them from the bothersome ramifications of their own ideologies...."
The fools never think that the bulldozer that covers and eliminates individual rights will bury them right along with the “deplorables” they so despise........and when that happens they’re like - Wait, what!!
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
To quote Shere, prog filth.
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 03:51 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
Hillary, is that you?
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 04:51 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: (02-01-2021 03:51 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
Hillary, is that you?
Nah, he’s describing you....
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 04:54 PM)Crebman Wrote: (02-01-2021 04:51 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: (02-01-2021 03:51 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
Hillary, is that you?
Nah, he’s describing you....
Deplorable.
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02-01-2021 05:37 PM |
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 04:54 PM)Crebman Wrote: (02-01-2021 04:51 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote: (02-01-2021 03:51 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Progressives are trash. Plain and simple.
Hillary, is that you?
Nah, he’s describing you....
He's like a chihuahua, tiny and stupid with little teeth. He's not dangerous or scary, but constantly is nipping at the grown ups feet being as annoying as possible. Of course, he can only act like this on the interwebs, cause in real life, much like a chihuahua, someone would just step on him.
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
(02-01-2021 04:18 PM)Crebman Wrote: (02-01-2021 03:44 PM)bullet Wrote: Also from the article:
"...Progressivism patronizes the poor and champions them at a distance, but despises the middle class, the traditionally hated bourgeoise without the romance of the distant impoverished or the taste and culture of the rich. The venom explains the wide array of epithets that Obama, Clinton, and Biden have so casually employed—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, ugly folk, chumps, and so on. “Occupy Wall Street” was prepped by the media as a romance. The Tea Party was derided as Klan-like. The rioters who stormed the Capitol were rightly dubbed lawbreakers; those who besieged and torched a Minneapolis federal courthouse were romanticized or contextualized.
Abstract humanitarian progressives assume that their superior intelligence and training properly should exempt them from the bothersome ramifications of their own ideologies...."
The fools never think that the bulldozer that covers and eliminates individual rights will bury them right along with the “deplorables” they so despise........and when that happens they’re like - Wait, what!!
AKA "useful idiots."
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02-01-2021 08:29 PM |
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
"AKA "useful idiots."
Yep, no wonder Killery said that they were stupid and easily brainwashed. Ha, ha, at least she was honest.
You forgot, Chihuahuas also yip and yap your ears off, like the Filth that post here and call themselves Progs.
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02-01-2021 09:09 PM |
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RE: Progressive totalitarians
This is funny after a failed hostile takeover...
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